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OASIS JUNE 2025 NEWSLETTER

Climate Psychology Alliance June Newsletter

Climate Action Accelerator Program: This is a terrific program run by Door Number One, a non-profit that helps schools achieve their sustainability, climate, and nature goals. Check it out.

Stanford Design School Summer Learning for PK12 Educator

Green Schools Alliance June Newsletter

A Conversation on Human and Planetary Health with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe. You can access the full recording here. A written recap of the event is also available here.

GREAT CONF. ON FOOD recordings: ‘Re-Thinking Food: From Plate to Planet’ Symposium Serves Up Future of Food

Green School’s Alliance July Newsletter: Transforming School Landscapes with Ecological Land Care

MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:

· World Health Assembly adopts the Global action plan on climate change and health for 2025-2028

· Developing a climate change health literacy scale: A methodological study in Turkish adults

· Putting food at the center of learning: an evidence-based and practice-informed model of holistic food education in schools

· Oil Industry opposes a planned rule to limit heat deaths among workers

· Environmental impact, cost, and acceptability of a laboratory sustainability certification program for biomedical research in an academic medical center

· Oil companies are sued over death of woman in 2021 heat wave

· Landmark air-pollution lab under threat from US Government cuts — can it be saved?

· Listen: Perspectives on the wellbeing economy and planetary health from Mexico

MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Clearing the smoke on fossil fuels: the health imperative for a counter marketing campaign

Phthalate exposure from plastics and cardiovascular disease: global estimates of attributable mortality and years life lost

o More about this study that links common chemicals in plastic to over 350,000 heart disease deaths

Long-term mental health trajectories across multiple exposures to climate disasters in Australia

The impact of ecosystem nitrogen enrichment on pollen allergy

Podcast with Nicole Redvers — Cultural burning: could traditional practices prevent modern wildfires?

Estimating the urban heat-related mortality burden due to greenness: a global modelling study

EPA says it will tackle “forever chemicals” but details are sparse

· Climate change and human health: a research agenda for action

· Federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease shutters

· Childhood air pollution exposure is related to cognitive, educational and mental health outcomes

· Dramatic air quality improvements after the complete electrification of a commuter rail system

· Promoting planetary health and well-being for all: harnessing indigenous knowledge for health

· Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time

· Antibiotic pollution in rivers follows 65% increase in human consumption

· The Center for Innovation in Global Health, the Woods Institute, HPH fund faculty to advance research in planetary health topics incl. valley fever and climate surveillance, air pollution and respiratory health, H5N1, nature-based solutions to schistosomiasis

· New publication from HPH leader Desiree LaBeaud shows significant impact of precipitation and temperature on malaria in Kenya

· Listen to HPH affiliate Amelia Meyer discuss how glass bottles can contain more plastic than plastic water bottles

· Stanford researchers including HPH affiliate Rodolfo Dirzo discover that a decline of apex scavengers threatens human health

· Research shows climate concerns are affecting the mental health of young Americans – feat. HPH affiliate and Planetary Health Postdoc alum Britt Wray

· Stanford-led research suggests prescribed burns can help reduce wildfire intensity and smoke pollution health risks

· A new Stanford study sheds light on how conserving biomass and biodiversity is critical to human and planetary health

· Interested in submitting your planetary health related writing or a creative piece to HPH Voices? Learn more and submit an idea or draft here

· Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave

· PLOS Climate highlights human and planetary health as a key challenge and opportunity in the study of climate policy and governance

· Rising vector-borne disease threats such as the Oropouche virus are making their way through North America as a result of climate change, deforestation, and urbanization

· Farm pollution in Iowa is creating dire risks to public and environmental health

· What made the Texas floods so devastating–and how researchers say more deaths can be prevented from flooding in the future

· Association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and myocardial fibrosis

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“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act towards our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.”